Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Another dead end?

Last month i posted
the recently declassified Carlson-Goldsberry
report. A memo included in the report had the following handwritten notes: RG 84 box 1 and an NND number that looks
like 857570 or 857560.

This seems to
lead to US National Archives collection RG 84 ‘Records of Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State’.

So when I told
my researcher to check this box I expected that I would be able to get the
reports sent from Sweden in late 1944 summarizing the talks US officials had with
the Finnish
codebreakers.

Unfortunately
both my researcher and the NARA FOIA office have confirmed that these reports are
not there!

So why does
the note say RG 84 box 1 NND 857560?

I’ve asked
the NSA FOIA office if they can give me more information on where they got this
document. If they respond maybe I will be able to track down similar reports in
NARA.Update:
Unfortunately the response from the NSA FOIA office was ‘….we have no additional information to provide’.